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Winter in WartimeWinter in Wartime (2008)
Dir. Martin Koolhoven
Feat. Martijn Lakemeier, Yorick van Wageningen, Jamie Campbell Bower
Sensitively handled account of a thirteen year old boy who joins the Dutch resistance at the tail end of World War II.
AssemblyAssembly (2007)
Dir. Feng Xiaoning
Feat. Hanyu Zhang
Searing Chinese war drama set during the country's last days of Civil war, in which a courageous army captain fights tooth and nail to stave off a…
Black Belt Black Belt (Kuro-obi) (2007)
Dir. Shunichi Nagasaki
Feat. Akihito Yagi, Tatsuya Naka
Defence meets attack in this measured martial arts drama set in 1930s Japan, in which two karate experts (played by real–life karate pros) take…
Counterfeiters, The Counterfeiters, The (Die Fälscher) (2007)
Dir. Stefan Ruzowitzky
Feat. Karl Markovics, Devid Striesow
An Oscar–winner for Best Foreign Language film, this taut German thriller reconstructs the story of a Jewish fraudster forced to assist the…
Joy DivisionJoy Division (2007)
Dir. Reg Traviss
Feat. Ed Stoppard, Tom Schilling, Bernadette Heerwagen
Ed Stoppard, son of Sir Tom, stars as a young German boy who becomes a KGB agent in this ambitious wartime saga that sweeps from WWII to swinging,…
KatynKatyn (2007) Recommended
Dir. Andrzej Wajda
Feat. Maja Ostaszewska, Artur Żmijewski, Pawel Malaszynski
Andrzej Wajda cements himself as Poland’s greatest director with this late–career triumph, a war story addressing the eradication of some…
Kite Runner, TheKite Runner, The (2007) Recommended
Dir. Marc Forster
Feat. Khalid Abdalla, Homayon Ershadi, Shaun Toub
The ravages of Afghanistan and its effect on an American 'refugee' forms the basis of Khaled Hosseini's best–selling book, here given due…
Lust, CautionLust, Caution (Se, Jie) (2007)
Dir. Ang Lee
Feat. Tony Leung (Chiu-wai), Joan Chen, Wei Tang
Dir. Ang Lee (BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN) returns to the mainland to present a slow–burn, psychologically dense and provocative spy thriller, based on…
MongolMongol (2007) Recommended
Dir. Sergei Bodrov
Feat. Tadanobu Asano
A fiercely–mounted early history of Genghis Khan, from the Mongol leader’s childhood years through to his all–conquering warpath across…
Black BookBlack Book (Zwartboek) (2006) Recommended
Dir. Paul Verhoeven
Feat. Carice Van Houten, Sebastian Koch, Thom Hoffman
A Jewish singer goes deep undercover for the Dutch resistance in this splashy, larger–than–life WWII yarn set in Nazi–occupied…

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